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Sony May Outsource PSP Production
SCE president Ken Kutaragi has confirmed that PSP production may be outsourced to another company, as demand for the PSP is already outstripping Sony's ability to produce. GamesIndustry.biz has the story, which points out that the handheld console is still not released in Europe, an event anticipated in early September. From the article: "At present, there is only one factory producing PSP consoles - the Kisarazu facility east of Tokyo, which manufactures around one million units per month. Sony has previously announced plans to double this figure by the summer as it continues the fight to compete with Nintendo."
You know, I've not yet met a PSP owner who HASN'T had any dead pixels. I think that would be a worthy news story if someone could find one without any. ;)
My DS didn't have any dead pixels. I bought one for my GF for Christmas though, and she had a dead one. A quick trip back to the store, and we were handed a brand new one. Sony has a policy of not accepting it back unless you have 13 dead pixels. Nintendo will take it back if there's a single dead pixel.
I have to say that Sony craftsmanship is always good for a laugh.
870k is the total for this year. (I just quoted that number to point out what rate they are selling at.) The PSP launched in 2004 and probably sold plenty at launch. I recall seeing that the US and Japan sales figures were pretty close.
As for DS vs. PSP, what I heard was that the DS had a much better launch. After their launches, the PSP started slowly catching up, although it still has a long way to go. Then Nintedogs was released, and it boosted DS sales a lot. According to the link I gave earlier, the DS is still doing better, at least in Japan. The totals for this year say the PSP has sold a bit less than 1% more units than the DS, and that excludes the huge head start the DS got with its launch.
Not just that:
http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=4781
Two of those games are versions of Nintendogs. The other one, in what can only been seen as a good sign, is the DS Bomberman, which uses both the classic game and art style of the game along with supporting 8-player games. (Are we finally getting a Bomberman equal to the sainted Super Bomberman back on the SNES? I certainly hope so.)
But back to Nintendogs.... that week when Shiba and Friends was #4, the other two games were #5 and #6. Added together, and it would have placed second, right behind a Romancing Saga game (and interestingly enough, displacing the GC Fire Emblem to #3).
Here educate yourselves and quit making baseless accusations and stupid comments.
"Twelve million units apiece of the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable consoles will be shipped worldwide in the financial year through to March 31st, 2006, according to the latest projections released by Sony.
The figures would bring worldwide shipments of the PSP to around 15 million units by the end of the financial year, while the PlayStation 2 - which currently has a global installed base of well over 80 million units - would be within shouting distance of 100 million units."
LTFA
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